Blender building error 'fatal: unable to look up git.blender.org (port 9418)....or WSAStartup failed' Win64
ok it turns out that there was an bug with the latest release version of git (v2.19.2.windows1) in which it was unable to open git:// urls
i actually found the solution on devtalk forum, which has a dedicated place for building blender issues, heres the thread